"Young Master Yang, are you selling this jade? If you are, I'm willing to offer you a satisfactory price!"
Seeing someone approach Yang Feilong with a request to buy jade, Li Yufei wanted to say something but hesitated. Although her purpose for coming was to buy jade, her purple gold was limited.
Yang Feilong now possessed ten pieces of jade. Even excluding the four of lesser value, six were worth millions, three were worth tens of millions, and the most expensive was worth twenty million, totaling fifty million. She couldn't afford it.
"Sorry, I'm not selling. My friend and I are planning to open a jade company, so we plan to keep these for ourselves!" Yang Feilong smiled and refused.
Li Yufei was stunned by this statement.
She hadn't expected Yang Feilong to make such a decision. Was it a temporary tactic, or did he genuinely want to partner with her?
Others also lost interest upon hearing this.
Since Yang Feilong wasn't selling and intended to keep them, they couldn't force the issue.
"You mentioned earlier about partnering with me to open a jade company, is that true?" As the crowd dispersed, Li Yufei asked Yang Feilong nervously in a low voice.
"Of course, it's true. It all depends on whether you're willing!" Yang Feilong said with a smile.
"Of course, I'm willing!" Li Yufei's face lit up with joy. This was her lifelong dream.
"It's good that you're willing!" Yang Feilong chuckled. "Now, we have twenty million in funds, and we can purchase more rough stones."
"Ah?" Li Yufei blinked in surprise. "We already have so much jade, isn't that enough?"
"After all, we're opening a jade company. Isn't it better to have more jade in stock?" Yang Feilong smiled.
"But buying rough stones is too much like gambling. We could buy some cut jade raw materials," Li Yufei said with some concern.
"It's fine. My luck is good today. Buying rough stones might even yield greater profits!" Yang Feilong shrugged and smiled. "Alright, just listen to me, and you won't go wrong!"
Yang Feilong's words were not spoken discreetly, and many people overheard him.
Quite a few people couldn't help but shake their heads.
"This kid knows nothing about gambling on stones, yet he boasts about relying on luck!"
"His luck is indeed good, making his competitor help him choose stones, and he profited greatly!"
"But now that his competitor is gone, can he still profit greatly through luck? I don't believe a single word of it!"
"I don't believe it either!"
Indeed, no one believed Yang Feilong could still have such good luck.
Li Yufei naturally didn't believe it either, but she chose to trust Yang Feilong. Ever since she met him, he had never let her down.
Therefore, she wouldn't choose to disappoint Yang Feilong either!
Apart from keeping some startup capital, she contributed a full eighteen million. Yang Feilong had previously spent two million on rough stones and still had over two million left. Combined with the ten million he won from Wu Lang, they now had a total of thirty million.
They informed the jade shop of their intention to sweep through the rough stones.
The jade shop staff were overjoyed, anticipating another surge in business.
Although the jade shop appeared to have lost out during the previous gamble, they hadn't actually lost overall, as it had stimulated customers' enthusiasm for buying rough stones.
This batch of rough stones had cost them four hundred million to acquire.
However, if all these rough stones were sold, they could fetch five hundred million, a net profit of one hundred million. But if they were all cut open, it would be difficult to even sell them for four hundred million!
This was because, on more than one occasion, a major client had bought an entire batch of rough stones hoping to make a profit, only to find that the cut jade raw materials were worth only three hundred and fifty million, a loss of fifty million. It would have been better to simply buy four hundred million worth of cut jade raw materials.
After all, buying rough stones required cutting, consuming significant manpower and resources, yet they still ended up losing money.
"This one looks good to me! I'll take it!" Yang Feilong began his sweeping purchase of rough stones.
"This rough stone looks like a person. Could it yield a human-shaped jade? I'll take it!"
"Hmm, this one looks like a roc. Perhaps it can yield a jade of a roc spreading its wings!"
"This one catches my eye. It's yours!"
Thus, Yang Feilong made extensive purchases, even selecting a few stones from previous batches that no one else had chosen. Yes, there were still leftover rough stones from earlier consignments, piled in corners. Although their prices had dropped considerably since they were first offered, and occasionally people would try to find bargains, the results were mostly losses.
Of course, there were also successes!
But overall, buying the entire lot would definitely result in a loss; it all depended on who had a keener eye!
And so it went.
Yang Feilong and Li Yufei's funds rapidly dwindled as someone kept a record and calculated the prices.
Li Yufei was dumbfounded. She had initially thought Yang Feilong genuinely understood rough stones but had simply not revealed it. However, it now appeared he was choosing them completely at random. There were many times she wanted to voice her opinion because some of the rough stones Yang Feilong picked looked decent to her, but more were ones she couldn't understand. Many professionals had even stated that with the thirty million Yang Feilong was spending, there was an eighty to ninety percent chance they would be lucky to recover ten million.
As for finding a few pieces of jade worth tens of millions, like before, they didn't believe Yang Feilong could have such luck again!
Li Yufei, realizing she didn't understand rough stones either, ultimately chose to trust Yang Feilong. Despite having many reservations, she suppressed them. If they lost money, so be it. Based on her understanding of Yang Feilong, he wouldn't let her suffer losses. Regardless, with the safety net of over fifty million worth of jade already in hand, they wouldn't lose money on this trip, just earn less.
In this manner, thirty million was spent on a total of three hundred and three rough stones, averaging about ten thousand yuan per stone.
The most expensive rough stone was eight hundred thousand yuan, and the cheapest was eight thousand yuan.
"Sir, you've bought so many rough stones. Would you like us to cut them for you, or will you take them back to cut yourselves?" the jade shop manager asked Yang Feilong with a smile. "Our jade shop has ten stone cutters. If we were to cut them, it would likely take a week! After all, other customers also need their stones cut."
This was understandable.
Stone cutting was a delicate process.
Ten stone cutters could easily finish cutting these three hundred-plus stones in a single day.
But they couldn't exclusively cut for one customer.
"This..." Li Yufei also felt a headache coming on, mainly because the number of rough stones was too large – over three hundred.
"Can you help us transport them back? We'll cut them ourselves. Transporting them shouldn't be a problem, right?" Yang Feilong asked.
"That's absolutely no problem!" Hearing this, the manager breathed a sigh of relief.
This also helped them out considerably.
Transporting the stones was far simpler than cutting three hundred pieces.